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Thursday, June 3, 2010

COACHING CRISES IN BESIKTAS!




If any one remembers, Besiktas officials, in the middle of the, this past season, made Mustafa Denizli, sign one more year deal, before the season ended and before the his contract ended!

How absurd that was!

Well, His actual contract did end on May 31th and the new contract, was never send to TFF(Turkish Football Federation),

Besiktas coach Mustafa Denizli was vacationing in Beituful Cesme,Izmir and all of sudden his blood pressure rose and they rushed him to Istanbul to checking to the Hospital.


According reports, Mustafa Denizli told Besiktas officials that he does not want to coach anymore the team, due to medical reasons.

He has a major health issues......


Former Real Madrid coach Bernd Schuster name is in the Turkish news papers now as the next coach of Besiktas!

I don't think so......

AHMET TURGUT

Sunday, May 30, 2010

TURKISH AND AMERICAN NATIONAL ANTHEMS IN THE PHILADELPHIA FINANCIAL FIE...

AFTER USA V TURKEY MATCH USA PLAYERS IN THE MIX ZONE

After the match number one attraction was USA player..

They were nice enough to answer the media questions after the match in the media mix zone.

I asked Tim Howard about first half and the Arda's goal and what he thought about Arda Turan..

Watch the video to find out what USA Goalkeeper Tim Howard said about ARDA TURAN...


USA BEATS TURKEY FOR THE FIRST TIME...2-1

It was very hot and humid day in the Philly...

But, that did not bother the fans from both sides....

American and Turkish fans were Tailgating hours before the match around the stadium..

And they were having good time too

The Turkish Journalist who came from Turkey fell in love with Financial field stadium and it's press box..

They were just amazed!

This was my second time at this stadium...

I came here when Turkish International keeper Rustu Recber was playing for Barca in a friendly match back in 2003..

Almost 55 thousand fans, showed up for this send-off match yesterday....

TURKEY STARTED.... USA FINISH IT !

In the first half it was all Turkey...

Arda Turan opened the scoring in the 27 minute after getting a beitiful ball from Kazim Richard.

Before Arda's goal Tuncay Sanli missed a wide open net....

Just before the half time both teams had prety good chances to score but they couldn't....

Tuncay's shot was deflected and Dempsey could not get to Altidore's dangerous cross in the box.

Turkey went in to the locker rooms with one gola advantage,,,

As they started the second half USA coach made four key sub....

But there was no Turkey sub in the beginning of the second half...
Turkish coaching staff was not aware of these players were the players secured spot on the starting eleven for USA in the World Cup 2010....

Lack of knowledge about the USA team and not making chances cost Turkey this match in the second half....

Thirteen minutes in to the second half...Robbie Findley, who came in as sub in the second half ,gave a good ball to Landon Donovan and Donovan narrowly avoided Turkish goalkeeper Volkan Demirel, selflessly setting up Altidore to score the goal easily..


Coach Bradley's four changes were big impact in the second half.. Steve Cherundolo for Spector, Oguchi Onyewu for Goodson, José Torres for Ricardo Clark and Robbie Findley for Feilhaber.

Those changes on the defense and in the midfield made a huge difference on USA team..

Like bob Bradley said, it was like "Night and Day"...

In the 75th minute, Steve Cherundolo another player who came in in the second half, gave a beautiful ball to Donovan who picked out Dempsey on the left side,the ball bounced off Dempsey’s hip and controlled the ball and kicked it under Volkan Demirel.


Dempsey and Jose Torres narrowly missed chances to add a third in the closing moments

Turkey’s best chance to tie the match came when Sercan Yildirim from Bursaspor burst through into the right side of the U.S. penalty area,but it was wasted...

While USA did not have a shot on goal in the first half,they had eight shots on goal in the second half,,,

After the match I attend the both teams press conference ...

Bob Bradly said "Turkey was good in the first half but we were better in the second half"


On the other hand Assistant coach Oguz Cetin, said " Americans were more disciplined and much more physically better than Turkish team as a whole team"

Well I have wrote this last week here on my blog ...

Americans might not be skill full with the ball but they have the discipline playing as whole team....

Hiddink and Oguz Cetin said they have some fixing to do with this team.....

Well, they don't have much time in their hand,,,,

In August and September there are very important matches for Turkey....

lastly, This was the first win for USA, against Turkey......

While USA was heading to the biggest dance in the World ,Turkish team will be heading for beaches for now....

Kudos to USA and good luck in the tournament....

AHMET TURGUT

USA 2- TURKEY- 1...U.S BEATS TURKEY FOR THE FIRST TIME!

USA vs. Turkey [ 2-1 ] Friendly All Goals 2010



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Friday, May 28, 2010

USA V TURKEY,LAST DANCE BEFORE THE BIG DANCE



The World Cup bound US National mens soccer team will play their last warm-up match against Turkish National team on Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia, Financial stadium at 2:00 PM,ET.

USA head coach Bob Bradley, has trimmed his World Cup roster to the 23 players on Wednesday.


What is so interesting is he selected only four players from MlS league ...

This has to be the lowest number that represent MLS in the national team!


Going back to 1998, there were 15 players from MLS on the World Cup roster.

In 2002 there were 12 and in the last tournament there were 11 players...

But, there are 13 former MLS players on the roster who are playing in the Europe's top leagues!

CONSISTENCY ON USA SIDE...............

Argue or not, United States National team is more consistence from Turkish National team during the past 20 years in the world football(soccer scene,,,

Like it or not, USA has been in every World Cup Tournament since 1994...

Turkish National team after finishing third place in 2002 has not been in the tournament.

In 1994, Americans invested 50 million dollars to build the structure that called project 2010...

Make the story short, USA has produced more players and Goal Keepers from their Academy's which are located in Los Angeles and Florida during past twenty years....


United States is the only country in the world, that sends more goal keepers to Europe league.

Three of the keepers on the 2010 World Cup roster are playing in the Europian leagues..

Tim Howard (Everton)...Brad Guzan (Aston Villa)..Marcus Hahnemann (Wolverhampton Wanderers)

Turkish National team hired the world known coach Guss Hidink to coach the team..

And he is in the states with the team but, can not be on the sidelines because of his contract details,,,,,

He has watch his team from the stand in the last two friendly matches in the United States...

That is why a lot of the players on the Turkish National team roster, playing very hard to impress Hiddink!

On Saturday you will see the top Turkish players on the pitch aloong with newcomers!
Hiddink invited four players from Turkish Champions Bursaspor team,,,

Sercan.....Ozan....Volkan and Turgay....

Along with those names you will have stars like Arda Turan, Emre Belezoglu,Nihat Kahveci, Tuncay Sanli and Altintop brothers and keeper Volkan Demirel..

USA coach will put his first starters against Turkey in this match...

The Financial Field in Philadelphia will be packed with Turkish-American and USA soccer fans...

The pitch is one of the best stadiums in the United States...

It will be very nice soccer frenzy match on Saturday...

I wish, at the end of the match, on the pitch, both team players will salute the fans in hand and hand showing the solidarity for the friendship between Turks and Americans!

That will be great send-off for USA National team to the World Cup 2010...

That is my wish and dream!



AHMET B TURGUT